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How government procurement measures can affect trade

Gourdon, Julien; Messent, James - 2017

A number of countries used discriminatory government procurement policies as part of stimulus packages designed to alleviate the effects of the global economic crisis. This paper collates and updates the evidence related to the size of procurement markets, the level of home bias they exhibit,...

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Anatomy of Public Procurement

Jääskeläinen, Jan - 2019

procurement auctions using comprehensive and rich Finnish data. Competition for publicly procured contracts is relatively low with …

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Introduction to 'Public Procurement’s Place in the World : The Charge Toward Sustainability and Innovation'

Decarolis, Francesco - 2019

The seven essays in this volume address different issues related to green and innovation procurement as well as more general challenges in public procurement. These studies address both general, abstract problems of optimal public procurement and concrete cases of national or even local public...

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The More the Merrier? Number of Bidders, Information Dispersion, Renegotiation and Winner's Curse in Toll Road Concessions

Athias, Laure; Nunez, Antonio - 2009

In this paper, we empirically assess the effects of the winner's curse in auctions for toll road concession contracts …. Such auctions are common-value auctions for incomplete contracts prone to pervasive renegotiations. We address three … questions in turn. First, we investigate the overall effects of the winner's curse on bidding behaviour in such auctions. Second …

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Anatomy of grand corruption : a composite corruption risk index based on objective data

Fazekas, Mihály; Tóth, István János; King, Lawrence - 2014

Although both the academic and policy communities have attached great importance to measuring corruption, most of the currently available measures are biased and too broad to test theory or guide policy. This article proposes a new composite indicator of grand corruption based on a wide range of...

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Corruption manual for beginners : "corruption techniques" in public procurement with examples from Hungary

Fazekas, Mihály; Tóth, István János; King, Lawrence - 2013

This paper develops 30 novel quantitative indicators of grand corruption that operationalize 20 distinct techniques of corruption in the context of public procurement. Each indicator rests on a thorough qualitative understanding of rent extraction from public contracts by corrupt networks as...

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Infrastructure provision and Africa's trade and development prospects : potential role and relevance of The WTO Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA)

Niggli, Nicholas C.; Osei-Lah, Kodjo - 2014 - Manuscript date: 30 October, 2014

Two issues stand out in this conversation. The first concerns the unfinished business of the global fight against the scourge of poverty, which impacts one region more than most: Africa. At the same time, a key pre-requisite for economic performance - affordable and efficient public...

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Public procurement and tax havens

Janský, Petr; Palanskỳ, Miroslav; Skuhrovec, Jiří - 2023

To understand public procurement suppliers linked to tax havens, we analyse datasets of tender-level public procurement and firm-level suppliers a provide a series of stylized facts. We estimate that around 5% of tenders by value (145 billion EUR yearly) are supplied by firms with ownership...

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Public procurement as an innovation policy : where do we stand?

Chiappinelli, Olga; Giuffrida, Leonardo M.; Spagnolo, … - 2023

Economics and innovation scholars have long recognized the potential of public procurement to trigger innovation. To what extent has this potential been realized so far? What can be done to improve the performance of PPI in this regard? This paper addresses these issues by providing a literature...

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Barriers to International Trade in Procurement after the Economic Crisis, Part II : Opening International Procurement Markets: Unfinished Business

Yukins, Christopher R. - 2011

This paper, presented at the West Government Contracts Year in Review Conference (covering 2010), discusses developing issues in international public procurement. Among other things, the paper suggests that, in 2010, the international procurement market continued to mature, as cross-border...

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